Niek Verweij
@niekverweij.bsky.social
Translational genetics of cardio/metabolic disease @regeneron. Brooklyn. Genetic Epidemiology. This is my wall of stickies.
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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🪧 NO KINGS NYC
📍 Meet: 47th & 7th Ave
📍 March: South on 7th Ave, to 14th St.
📆 Oct 18th
⏰ 11am
📣 More info at NoKingsNYC.com
📣 Sign up to volunteer bit.ly/4q3mgZU
📣 Sign up to marshal tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals
This is a peaceful, nonviolent march.
We protest with all the joy we can muster.
📍 Meet: 47th & 7th Ave
📍 March: South on 7th Ave, to 14th St.
📆 Oct 18th
⏰ 11am
📣 More info at NoKingsNYC.com
📣 Sign up to volunteer bit.ly/4q3mgZU
📣 Sign up to marshal tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals
This is a peaceful, nonviolent march.
We protest with all the joy we can muster.
October 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
🪧 NO KINGS NYC
📍 Meet: 47th & 7th Ave
📍 March: South on 7th Ave, to 14th St.
📆 Oct 18th
⏰ 11am
📣 More info at NoKingsNYC.com
📣 Sign up to volunteer bit.ly/4q3mgZU
📣 Sign up to marshal tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals
This is a peaceful, nonviolent march.
We protest with all the joy we can muster.
📍 Meet: 47th & 7th Ave
📍 March: South on 7th Ave, to 14th St.
📆 Oct 18th
⏰ 11am
📣 More info at NoKingsNYC.com
📣 Sign up to volunteer bit.ly/4q3mgZU
📣 Sign up to marshal tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals
This is a peaceful, nonviolent march.
We protest with all the joy we can muster.
Reposted by Niek Verweij
Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.
May 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.
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Incredible. One speaker is here WHILE BATTLING CANCER because she’s one of the thousands of people enrolled in a clinical trial that was senselessly cut by Trump/Musk
March 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Incredible. One speaker is here WHILE BATTLING CANCER because she’s one of the thousands of people enrolled in a clinical trial that was senselessly cut by Trump/Musk
It’s exactly why my computer gets slower every year
ROTH: “Are LLMs getting commoditized? Yes, we are afraid so.
“Are U.S. companies (incl. Stargate) spending a bit too much ..? Yes .. While unlimited conspiracy theories are floating .. around how Deepseek is a Chinese psyop, we believe that Deepseek was .. forced to figure out an efficient way ..”
“Are U.S. companies (incl. Stargate) spending a bit too much ..? Yes .. While unlimited conspiracy theories are floating .. around how Deepseek is a Chinese psyop, we believe that Deepseek was .. forced to figure out an efficient way ..”
January 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It’s exactly why my computer gets slower every year
No drones in the sky
December 17, 2024 at 11:22 PM
No drones in the sky
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Downstreamer is now available: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We used 57 tissue specific gene expression networks to identify key genes of common diseases. 78% of these key genes are located outside of GWAS loci. 1/4
December 5, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Downstreamer is now available: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We used 57 tissue specific gene expression networks to identify key genes of common diseases. 78% of these key genes are located outside of GWAS loci. 1/4
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Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus
In Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the genomic region around the gene cortex is a “hotspot” locus, repeatedly implicated in generating intraspecific melanic wing color polymorphisms across 100 mi...
www.science.org
December 5, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Excited to share our latest preprint on scE2G – a new model to link enhancers to target genes using single-cell data – with state-of-the-art performance across multiple perturbation benchmarks.
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Read more below!
1/12
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Read more below!
1/12
Mapping enhancer-gene regulatory interactions from single-cell data
Mapping enhancers and their target genes in specific cell types is crucial for understanding gene regulation and human disease genetics. However, accurately predicting enhancer-gene regulatory interac...
biorxiv.org
November 25, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Excited to share our latest preprint on scE2G – a new model to link enhancers to target genes using single-cell data – with state-of-the-art performance across multiple perturbation benchmarks.
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Read more below!
1/12
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Read more below!
1/12
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🧬 Our dilated #cardiomyopathy GWAS out today!
📍https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01952-y
All made possible with friends and collaborators from HERMES Consortium @alberthenry.bsky.social @tomlumbers.bsky.social @jamesware.bsky.social @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialnhli.bsky.social #BHF
🧵 👇
📍https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01952-y
All made possible with friends and collaborators from HERMES Consortium @alberthenry.bsky.social @tomlumbers.bsky.social @jamesware.bsky.social @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialnhli.bsky.social #BHF
🧵 👇
November 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
🧬 Our dilated #cardiomyopathy GWAS out today!
📍https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01952-y
All made possible with friends and collaborators from HERMES Consortium @alberthenry.bsky.social @tomlumbers.bsky.social @jamesware.bsky.social @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialnhli.bsky.social #BHF
🧵 👇
📍https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01952-y
All made possible with friends and collaborators from HERMES Consortium @alberthenry.bsky.social @tomlumbers.bsky.social @jamesware.bsky.social @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialnhli.bsky.social #BHF
🧵 👇
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Current polygenic risk scores require binning of ancestry groups but we know ancestry is a continuum. Our study led by Y. Ruan introduces DiscoDivas, a new generalizable PRS framework across the ancestry spectrum www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social
November 11, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Current polygenic risk scores require binning of ancestry groups but we know ancestry is a continuum. Our study led by Y. Ruan introduces DiscoDivas, a new generalizable PRS framework across the ancestry spectrum www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social
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I had forgotten what fun the original version of MedTwitter was. People teaching each other. Making new connections. The X algorithm made my feed a cesspool. And now that I’m here, it’s just like the days before Twitter became X.
November 11, 2024 at 2:49 AM
I had forgotten what fun the original version of MedTwitter was. People teaching each other. Making new connections. The X algorithm made my feed a cesspool. And now that I’m here, it’s just like the days before Twitter became X.
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welcome to the Age of Diarrhea
November 7, 2024 at 4:57 AM
welcome to the Age of Diarrhea